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David Roy discovers that the new Liam Neeson action thriller is much better than you might have heard, and picks three other top entries from the Co Antrim star’s ‘geriaction’ canon...

RagBag FeaturesIn the Land of Saints and Sinners opens on a busy pub, but its introductory text spells trouble: “Northern Ireland, 1974.” A bombing attempt goes awry, sending its IRA perpetrators—led by the ruthless liberationist Doireann McCann (Kerry Condon)—on the run from Belfast to a coastal town in Donegal, just south of the border. They decide to lay low, but this quaint village in the Republic of Ireland happens to be the home of hitman Finbar Murphy (Liam Nee...

RagBag FeaturesIn the Land of Saints and Sinners opens on a busy pub, but its introductory text spells trouble: “Northern Ireland, 1974.” A bombing attempt goes awry, sending its IRA perpetrators—led by the ruthless liberationist Doireann McCann (Kerry Condon)—on the run from Belfast to a coastal town in Donegal, just south of the border. They decide to lay low, but this quaint village in the Republic of Ireland happens to be the home of hitman Finbar Murphy (Liam Nee...

The veteran actor gets to flex his Irishness in a reasonably watchable (if politically dubious) hitman thriller “In the Land of Saints and Sinners.”

Liam Neeson and Kerry Condon face off in Robert Lorenz’s 'In the Land of Saints & Sinners," a Western-style showdown in an Irish coastal village.